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The State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.The 2-mile (3.2 km), double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north.
Northgate Link tunnel: Transit tunnel Completed in 2021 $1.9 billion [13] Brightwater Tunnel: Sanitation infrastructure Completed in 2011 $1.8 billion [14] First billion-dollar tunnel in Seattle University Link tunnel: Transit tunnel Completed in 2012 $1.7 billion [15] Completed $200 million under budget. Central Link light rail service began ...
This is a list of tunnels built in the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. The Puget Sound region , where Seattle lies, has a history of glaciation that has left many hills and ridges that civil engineers have needed to traverse for transportation and utilities. [ 1 ]
Seattle Public Utilities held a public naming contest for its latest massive piece of machinery — a tunnel boring machine that will be used to build a storage space for the Ship Canal Water ...
After the passage of Sound Transit 3, local transit advocacy group Seattle Subway proposed a second ballot measure to approve full bonding to finance an accelerated timeline for projects; the new ballot measure would require 60 percent of voters to approve, per the state's supermajority requirement for bonds and levies. [109]
The tunnel project received $300 million in funds from the Port of Seattle in exchange for design input on the surface boulevard that would replace Alaskan Way. [132] Neighborhood and environmental activist Mike McGinn was elected mayor in 2009, largely on an anti-tunnel platform, and threatened to veto project agreements until the state took ...
The replacement for a crumbling underwater tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey that carries up to 200,000 people daily just received the largest-ever federal transportation grant, ...
The 4.7-mile-long (7.6 km) West Seattle Link Extension will include three new stations southwest of SODO station and is scheduled to open in 2032. [5] The 3 Line was created as part of the Sound Transit 3 program, approved by voters in 2016, which included both projects.